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Four pixelated figures stand in a row against a light background, with one figure holding a small object above their head.

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Four pixelated figures stand in a row against a light background, with one figure holding a small object above their head.

Four pixelated figures stand in a row against a light background, with one figure holding a small object above their head. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • row

Dense Caption

Four pixelated human figures stand side-by-side against a light background. The leftmost figure wears a black top and blue pants, with one arm raised. The second figure wears a dark top and blue pants. The third figure wears a maroon top and dark pants, holding a small dark object above their head. The rightmost figure wears a dark top and blue pants. All figures have light skin tones and short hair. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Four pixelated figures stand in a row against a light background, with one figure holding a small object above their head.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080902194002575979133

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four figures standing
  • maroon top holding object
  • pixelated blocky figures
  • light background figures
  • blue pants figures
  • raised arm figure
  • small object held
  • black top figure

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • four figures
  • light background
  • black top
  • maroon top
  • blue pants
  • dark pants
  • raised arm
  • small object
  • light skin
  • short hair
  • pixelated
  • blocky

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080902194002575979133
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/90/90658cee773584353145a78209169f7f8bb7080a592a5d169232bcdc87957598.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
90658cee77358435
SHA-256
90658cee773584353145a78209169f7f8bb7080a592a5d169232bcdc87957598
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088729

OpenAI category scores

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Four pixelated figures stand in a row against a light background, with one figure holding a small object above their head.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,971 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 803

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • maroon (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • small object (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • four figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • holding
  • raised arm

Colors

  • black
  • maroon
  • blue
  • dark
  • light

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • row

Dense Caption

Four pixelated human figures stand side-by-side against a light background. The leftmost figure wears a black top and blue pants, with one arm raised. The second figure wears a dark top and blue pants. The third figure wears a maroon top and dark pants, holding a small dark object above their head. The rightmost figure wears a dark top and blue pants. All figures have light skin tones and short hair. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Four pixelated figures stand in a row against a light background, with one figure holding a small object above their head.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080902194002575979133

Mood

  • neutral

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  • maroon top holding object
  • pixelated blocky figures
  • light background figures
  • blue pants figures
  • raised arm figure
  • small object held
  • black top figure

Objects

  • small object

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • four figures

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  • black top
  • maroon top
  • blue pants
  • dark pants
  • raised arm
  • small object
  • light skin
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20080902194002575979133
Archive entry
20080902194002575979133.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080902194002575979133.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080902194002575979133.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016